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Message no. 1
From: Rob Kean <rkean@****.net>
Subject: RE: binaries on my mails
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:42:09 -0500
Actually I think those are the messages I'm replying to. I use MS Inbox
for my mail on Win95. I apparently had the "Use MIME when sending mail"
option checked. I've disabled it now...Did the binary go away???

While we're on the subject of strange attachments, what is that
"-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----" at the bottome of some docs???

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From: Gurth[SMTP:gurth@******.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 1996 5:24 AM
To: shadowrn@********.itribe.net
Subject: RE: V.R. 2.0

Rob Kean said on 25 Mar 96...

Actually what he said doesn't matter to me at the moment, what I'd like
to know is, what are those binaries Mr. Kean keeps attaching to his
mails? My mailer calls it "Binary data, File Unknown, type Unknown".

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
only the extreme makes an impression
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Character Mortuary: http://huizen.dds.nl/~mortuary/mortuary.html <-

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version 3.1:
GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ U P L E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+ PE
Y PGP- t(+) 5+ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b+@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------



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end
Message no. 2
From: mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject: RE: binaries on my mails
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:38:20 -0600
>Actually I think those are the messages I'm replying to. I use MS Inbox
>for my mail on Win95. I apparently had the "Use MIME when sending mail"
>option checked. I've disabled it now...Did the binary go away???
Nope. Still there. And the binary is basically just crapola data.
Unintelligable.

>While we're on the subject of strange attachments, what is that
>"-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----" at the bottome of some docs???
It's the infamous geek code that was designed by Fearless leader. The begin
is a humorous imitation of the pgp block. Actually, it can be helpful if
you have a geek decoder. But that's not important now.
Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: RE: binaries on my mails
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:56:13 +0100
Rob Kean said on 26 Mar 96...

> Actually I think those are the messages I'm replying to. I use MS Inbox
> for my mail on Win95. I apparently had the "Use MIME when sending mail"
> option checked. I've disabled it now...Did the binary go away???

Yes, although at bottom of this message was an encoded block as well...

> While we're on the subject of strange attachments, what is that
> "-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----" at the bottome of some docs???

That's Rob Hayden's Geek Code version 3.1 -- check out his home page for
details.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
only the extreme makes an impression
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Character Mortuary: http://huizen.dds.nl/~mortuary/mortuary.html <-

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version 3.1:
GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ U P L E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+ PE
Y PGP- t(+) 5+ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b+@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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